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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

  • Designing Clinical Interventions to Prevent Youth Self - Harm and Suicide 2024

  • When Talk Therapy is not Enough 2024

  • 10 Tips for integrating Neuroscience Ethically and Effectively into your Practice 2024

  • Enhancing Adolescent Self - Esteem with Multidimensional Family Therapy 2024

  • Managing Hopelessness: Helplessness and Despair with our Younger Clients 2024

  • ​Youth Suicide Prevention: Connecting the dots between Schools and Communities 2023

  • Addressing Internet Gaming Addiction in Clinical Work 2023

  • Intuitive Eating: Helping Clients Develop a Healthier Relationship with food 2023

  • Men's Anxiety, Why It Matters, and What is Needed to Limit its Risks for Male Suicide 2023

  • Youth Mental Health First Aid 2023

  • Counselling with Men in Mind: Understanding and Responding to Men’s Distress and Suicidality 2022

  • Addressing Youth Depression and Suicidal Ideation in a Post-Pandemic World 2022

  • The Neuroscience of Habits 2022

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy 2021

  • Strengths Based Parenting 2021

  • Youth Mental Health First Aid 2021

  • Resilience: Myths and Strategies 2021

  • Suicide in Schools: Prevention and Intervention 2021

  • The ABC Model of Crisis Intervention: Working with Grief and Loss 2021

  • Reducing NSSI in Minority Adolescents by Strengthening Family Connections and Enhancing Distress Tolerance 2021

  • Case Studies in Counselling Parents 2021

 

  • Suicide Prevention Summit 2020

  • Trauma Informed Care: Mindfulness Based Treatment for Post-Traumatic Growth 2020

  • Recent Advances in the Psychological treatment of PTSD 2020

  • Key Elements of Person Centred Suicide Risk Assessment 2020

  • Mindfulness and Resilience 2020

  • Between a Mindful and a Wandering Brain: Time has come for Mindwanderfulness 2020

  • Sexuality Counselling through the Lifespan 2020

  • Building the Therapeutic Alliance 2020

 

  • Counselling and Coaching: Compatible or Incompatible? 2019

  • Conducting a State of the Science Suicide Assessment Interview 2019

  • The Secret Life of Teenage girls MHA 2019

  • How can Gratitude and Hope Inoculate People Against Depression 2019

  • Not all Grit is Created Equal 2019

  • Beyond S.M.A.R.T.: Helping Clients Set and Achieve Goals 2019

  • Narrative Therapy in the Face of Grief 2019

  • Something Better Than Punishment 2019

  • School Bullying: The Basics 2019

  • Understanding Addiction 2019

 

  • ASIST 11 2015/2016/2017/2018/2019/2020

  • Youth Mental Health First Aid 2018/21

  • First Aid Level 2 2022

  • Applied Positive Psychology: A Strengths Based Approach 2018

  • Generation Next (Mental Health & Wellbeing of Young People) 2018

  • Applied Strategies for Creating Healthy Family Systems 2018

  • Three Things Every Child Needs to Thrive 2018

  • How are we Going in Treating Anxious Youth? Status of the Field and Current Directions 2018

  • Burnout & Self-Care 2018

  • Hypnotherapy and NLP: A guide for Therapists 2018

  • Adolescent Capacity to Mindful, Not Mind Full 2018

  • Growth Mindset: There is No Such Thing as Smart or Stupid 2018

  • Assessment in Couples Therapy 2018

  • Diagnosing Anxiety Disorders 2018

  • Attachment and the Therapeutic Relationship 2018

  • The Myth of Finding Happiness After Success 2018

  • Counselling Trauma Affected Clients with Diverse Abilities 2018

  • Discipline: What Parents get Wrong and How to get it Right 2018

  • The Basics of Psychopharmacology 2018

  • Narrative Therapy; Re-Authoring the Stories That Shape Realities 2018

  • School Refusal, Withdrawal, Truancy and Why it happens and how to re-engage 2018

 

  • Tuning into Kids Facilitator Training 2017

  • Engaging the Netflix Generation 2017

  • Intersection of Technology and Education 2017

  • What really matters? Linking physical and Mental Health 2017

  • Improving engagement with young students in VET 2017

  • VAADA AOD training and Emotional Regulation 2017

  • Youth assessment and Therapy 2017

  • First 1000 days Family Therapy 2017

  • Caring Dads Facilitator Training 2017

 

  • Engaging Fathers through Trauma Sensitive Practice 2016

  • Victorian L17 Police training 2016

  • Non Suicidal Self Injury Training 2016

  • Domestic and Family Violence Professional Development 2016

  • Managing Bipolar Disorder in Young People 2016

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy 2016

  • Vicarious Trauma/Self Awareness Training 2016

  • Aboriginal Competence Training 2016

  • Mental Health First Aid 2015

  • Police Check Ref no: 03254761-OG0334 DOA-6/11/14

  • Working with Children Check 04214785-03 EXP 08/23

  • Compostella 2013 (see overview in Skills section)

Lukas 

Winward

Counselling

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Lukas Winward provides counselling for teens, young adults, and families in Parkdale and Bayside areas. His active approach addresses behaviour, builds resilience, and promotes growth in supportive, engaging environments.

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Lukas Winward proudly acknowledges the Bunurong People of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this land, and we pay our respect to their Elders, past and present and emerging.

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Bunurong Country

Elwood,  Brighton, Brighton East, Brighton North,  Hampton, Sandringham, Cheltenham, Highett,  Parkdale, Mentone, Beaumaris, Blackrock, Morrabbin,  Mordialloc, Edithvale, Aspendale, Carrum, Patterson Lakes, Dingley, Waverly, Oakleigh, Murrembeena, 

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